Word: thompson
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...most fetching health resorts. Its climate is mild by day and cool by night, and its lush vegetation includes thick jungles, clouds of brilliant flowers and mile after mile of tea plantations. There last week on vacation went one of Southeast Asia's best-known businessmen, American James Thompson, 61. Tired from a round of business, which included the opening in Bangkok three weeks ago of a new, two-story headquarters for his $1.5 million-a-year silk business, Thompson came to the Highlands as the guest of Dr. and Mrs. T. G. Ling of Singapore...
...resident of Thailand since 1946, Thompson had almost singlehanded made Thai silk and its shimmering colors world-renowned, and thus created a major export asset for the grateful Thais. But Thompson was more than a businessman; he was also a collector of Oriental objets d'art who filled his opulent Bangkok home with priceless porcelains and religious figures. He loved to roam through the jungle, searching for old ruins and occasionally kicking up a Buddha's head. One afternoon last week, when his hosts had retired to rest, he left their house without a word and went...
...reputation for clairvoyance picked out a likely spot on a map, and the commander of U.S. Army Support in Thailand, Brigadier General Edwin F. Black, flew off to Malaysia with it in the distant hope the it might help. Even a local witch doctor tried, and failed, to divine Thompson's whereabouts...
...extending it to other cities as well. If the U.S. followed their example, it would set off a new and immensely expensive round of the arms race (TIME ESSAY, Feb. 24) without, as Secretary of Defense Robert McNamara has noted, adding one whit to the security of either side. Thompson's task is to convince the Russians, who have an almost paranoiac regard for defense, that they have nothing to gain-and billions to lose-by attempting to upset the balance with an ABM fence...
...disposal for Fresno (Calif.) County. Lockheed, though still the top Pentagon contractor, with $1.5 billion worth of 1966 plane and missile orders, is battling General Dynamics and Litton Industries for a Navy ship contract?to the dismay of the nation's proudly inefficient conventional shipbuilders. Cleveland's TRW (nee Thompson Ramo Wooldridge) is designing a hospital operations system for Edmonton, Canada, studying ways to improve highspeed ground transportation for the Federal Government, devising a system by which California cities can cope more effectively with their growing pains...